The A-Team Blog: Part 2

May 18, 2009 Posted by Roger OvertoncloseAuthor: Roger Overton Name: Roger Overton
Email: rogeroverton@hotmail.com
Site: http://ateamblog.com
About: Roger Overton is currently pursuing a Masters degree at Talbot School of Theology. He has addressed various churches, schools and youth camps throughout the United States. Roger was co-editor of The New Media Frontier (Crossway, 2008) and God and Governing (Wipf & Stock, 2009). Roger can be emailed at rogeroverton@hotmail.com.See Authors Posts (570)

Welcome to The A-Team Blog sequel! We’ve put a bit of work into making this new place look nice with some cool new features, so we’re glad you could join us here. There’s a few new things, as well as a new person, so we’ll start with him…

Please welcome Aaron Snell to The A-Team Blog! Those who’ve read our blog for awhile have seen him add his (wise and insightful) two cents to the comments of our posts for some time. He’s the father of two homeschooled kids, a former church elder and a student in Biola’s MA in Apologetics program. I should also point out that though his wife is named Amy, she is not the Amy who blogs here. Aaron’s fairly smart, and he enjoyed watching Batman Begins, so I think he’ll fit in well here

As far as new features go, there’s a few I’ll draw your attention to:

Facebook Connect: A long time ago, in blogs far far away, users typically had to register an account for every blog (such as the old A-Team Blog) they visted. Those days are passing due to tools like Facebook Connect. Simply use your Facebook username and password to log into our blog and you’re done. You can comment and make all the noise you want. If you don’t have a Facebook account, you can register an account on our blog the old fasion way via the Register link.

Twitter: The A-Team Blog is now on Twitter. Our posts will automatically update to our Twitter status, and we’ll occasionally share brief thoughts there. Feel free to follow us!

Comments: Not a new feature, but something I should explain as we’ll likely be asked about it. When importing our old blog over here, comment author names were dropped. So if you look back through our archives, every comment will say it was by “Anonymous.” I’ve updated the last few months with the correct author names, but none of us have the desire to update all 3,291+ comments we’ve received over the years with the correct names. So it is what it is.

Blogroll: The blogroll showing in our sidebar is actually a feed of the last 10 updates from blogs on our blogroll. So blogs that are more active will show up there more often. You can view our complete blogroll via the “Links” button at the top, as well as a list of ministries we like.

ShareThis: At the bottom of every post is a “ShareThis” button. This will easily allow you to alert others to the post via Digg, Facebook, email or dozens of other means.

Well, that’s about it. Please let us know what you think, if you have any suggestions, if you see something that doesn’t look right, or if you just really want to try out some of the new features by leaving a comment

Related posts:

1. My Final A-Team Blog Post
2. The A-Team Blog Book of the Year Award (2005): Contestants
3. Welcome to The A-Team Blog
4. John's New Blog
5. The A-Team Blog Book of the Year Award (2005)
6. Gum, Geckos and God Blog Tour

Posted in Roger's Posts